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Preliminary inspection

The preliminary inspection will be carried out during the last month of your tenancy. The inspector will check the apartment for anything that needs maintenance or repairing and they will also assess the cleanliness of the apartment.

The preliminary inspection also does not release the tenant from their responsibilities. The preliminary inspection is carried out during the last month of tenancy and the situation may change after that. So if you, for example, break the apartment door as you move out, you will get charged for the broken door even if your apartment was in order at the time of the preliminary inspection.

If you have any questions regarding the preliminary inspection, please contact the maintenance services at Hoas, so that we can try to answer your questions and solve potential problems.

Based on the preliminary inspection, the inspector may order such maintenance or repair work that is due to normal wear and tear; these will not be charged to the tenant. The inspector may also order repair work for problems which were caused by the tenant's negligence and which tenants cannot be allowed to repair themselves. Such work would be for example replacing wash basins.

If necessary, the inspector may leave a cleaning request for the tenant. At the time of the preliminary inspection, the inspector will not order a cleaning, but the level of cleanliness will be checked again after the tenancy agreement ends.

If you let us know that you have pets in your apartment when you give your notice, the inspector will call you before coming for the inspection. Please note that if we cannot reach you by phone to set a time for the inspection, there will be no preliminary inspection. In this case, the apartment will only be inspected after your agreement has ended. The housing inspector will then post a set of instructions through your letterbox listing the issues to be considered.

The preliminary inspection is an extra service offered by Hoas as a way of providing guidance to the tenants in what they need to do before moving out. Even if we cannot carry out the inspection, the tenant still has to make sure the apartment is in an acceptable state before they move out. If repair work or extra cleaning is found necessary during the inspection carried out after your agreement has ended, the lack of a preliminary inspection is not an acceptable excuse. Tenants receive instructions for moving out when they get a confirmation for their notice of termination.